Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
-- Soren Kierkegaard "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
-- Charles Schultz "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Cabras "When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome." (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1547-1616) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato Cabras
The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines
staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you
ask th The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
-- Anonymous ... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more
aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
-- Jilly Cooper Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get
money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock Cabras Diplomat: A man who can convince his wife she would look stout in a fur coat. This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold
of a hammer.
-- Will Rogers And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make.
-- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song Cabras
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
-- Josh Billings His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein If the government wants people to respect the law, it should set a better example.
-- Anon. What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
-- Robert Schuller Cabras Never practice two vices at once.
-- Tallulah Bankhead "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who
take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.
-- INDIRA Cabras
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
-- George Washington Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork
picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
-- Tom Stoppard I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being
gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.
-- Molly Ivins "It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living." (Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poe Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
-- Al Capp Cabras "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain
and bought jewelry.
-- Rita Rudner "Education is a vacine for violence." (Edward James Olmos) Cabras
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russell All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all
other betrayals come.
-- Cormac McCarthy When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of
the world.
- George Washington Carver A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-- James Lowell It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should
live honourably.
-- Kant, Immanuel Cabras Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
-- Laurence J. Peter "In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it." (Ani Difranco) Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
-- George Saunders - last words Cabras
His ignorance is encyclopedic
- Abba Eban Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha Who, being loved, is poor?
-- Oscar Wilde Cabras Honolulu - it's got everything. Sand for the children, sun for the wife, sharks for the wife's mother. -- Ken Dodd Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain "For better or for worse, our company (The News Corporation Ltd.) is a reflection of my thinking, my character, my values." (Keith Rupert Murdoch, media mogul, 1931-) Cabras
Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.
-- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
-- Virginia Woolf "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.
-- Kenneth H. Blanchard Cabras English Law prohibits a man from marrying his mother-in-law. This is our idea of useless legislation. Honor the ocean of love.
-- George de Benneville Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman Cabras
"If you do not know where you are going, any road will take you there." (Sterling Holloway, voice of Chesire Cat, Alice in Wonderland) Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
-- George Bernard Shaw "Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear." (G. Gordon Liddy) Wind is to fire like distance is to love; it extinguishes the small and enflames the great.
-- Anonymous The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt Cabras I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
-- Vincent Van Gogh If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never
be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.
-- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to Cabras
More than kisses, letters mingle souls.
-- John Donne "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Not much meat on her, but what's there is choice.
-- Spencer Tracy, about Katharine Hepburn Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it.
-- Anonymous Cabras Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-- Albert Einstein Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of
our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
-- John Adams People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard Cabras
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a
chair.
-- Arnold Toynbee Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
-- William Yeats The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Cabras "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.
-- Chad A. Gamble, Escape, short story Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of
the other person.
-- Mark Twain Cabras
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth.
These days they more often leave that way.
-- David Deckert I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod Cabras Life is like a movie--since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the
bathroom in the middle of it.
-- Nick Mirov "Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?" (Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh) I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Cabras
